Michael Blanding

Picking the right autumn destination is no easy feat. For the perfect fall experience, here are ten favorite New England foliage towns.

Picking the right autumn destination is no easy feat. For the perfect fall experience, here are ten favorite New England foliage towns.

When you take a foliage daytrip along Route 100, you’ll understand why this stretch of highway has been called the most scenic in New England.

On the untamed side of the Berkshires, back roads and byways take visitors deep into autumn beauty and unexpected discoveries.

On the untamed side of the Berkshires, back roads and byways take visitors deep into autumn beauty and unexpected discoveries.

It’s the church steeple that causes Jeff Folger, a.k.a. Jeff “Foliage,” Yankee‘s compulsive foliage blogger, to spin his red Silverado pickup truck around the town green of Brooklyn, Connecticut. The steeple is an unusual one, with a rectangular base giving way to a mansard-roof cupola covered in copper sheathing. And more to our purpose, it […]

There’s a reason this stretch of highway–some 200 miles from Massachusetts to Lake Memphremagog–has been called the best foliage drive in VT, and even the most scenic in all of New England.

Searching through her grandfather’s attic, local graphic designer Seania McCarthy discovered a clipping about a deserted village in the heart of Cape Ann called Dogtown Common (or Commons). A prosperous farming and mill community in the 1600s and 1700s, it was finally abandoned, literally, to the dogs in the mid-19th century. Now she, partner Dee […]

It happens often as you drive around Cape Ann, the rocky headland jutting into the Atlantic 30 miles north of Boston. You round a corner or crest a hill and wham! — suddenly you’ve driven into a painting. It’s something about the way the light refracts off the ocean on all sides, making ship masts […]